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Sixty-year-old Megan Patey from Colo Vale, NSW is tuning her bike and packing her bags for the trip to Mt Buller in Victoria for this weekend’s Bike Buller MTB Festival. Patey is competing in the Sunday race only which is a tough 50km cross-country race over to neighbouring Mt.Stirling and back again. A big event for anyone let-a-lone someone who is considered a senior citizen!

We consider TV to be the next frontier for our Rapid Ascent events and we are continually trying to get greater public exposure for the feats of endurance, commitment and sporting prowess our competitors do. Power to the Pedal is a new cycling specific program that is just starting and who came and filmed the 2010 Otway Odyssey and also the 2010 Bike Buller MTB Festival.

The Bike Buller MTB Festival is on again this weekend and is bringing all that is great about mountain biking back to the one spectacular location. This year competitor numbers have doubled to nearly 400 riders from all over Australia, contesting four races in two days. The field is hot again with Murray Spink and Jess Douglas both returning with the aim of retaining their overall titles for the weekend’s events.

The Otway Odyssey Mountain Bike Marathon lived up to expectations with the closest finish of its history in an exciting race that attracted one of the best line-ups in an Australian event. The sell-out field of star studded World Champs, Olympians and Aussie Title holders accompanied by excited weekend warriors grouped at Apollo Bay on the scenic Great Ocean Road as the sun rose to great fanfare provided by a 10 piece brass band.

The renowned Otway Odyssey MTB Marathon has sold out for the third year in a row with a full field of 1000 riders in the premier 100km Odyssey Ride and a full field of 500 riders in the 50km Otway Shorty. This year’s event sold out earlier than ever before with race day still a distant seven weeks away on February 20th 2010.